Improvement in adjustable head-rests



A. B. MANWARRING; Adjustable Head-Rest.

No. 221,587. Patented Nov. 11,1879.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE AMANDA B. MANWARRING, OF DETROIT,

MICHIGAN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,587, dated November 11, 1879; application filed June 21, 1879.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMANDA B. 1\ IANWAR- -RING, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and designed for the use of invalids; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts, all as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of my specification, and which shows my invention in perspective, A represents a suitable frame, to one end of which is pivoted a frame, B, as at a. The frame B has a pivoted girt, c, in its upper end. The proppingframe is composed of the steadying side rods, D, which pass through the girt c, and at their lower ends are set in a girt, d, pivoted in the base-frame. The upper ends of the side rods,

D, are connected by a girt, b.

A screw-rod, E, passes centrally through the girt (1, turns through a threaded opening in the girt d.

girt c, and is properly seated in the The threaded rod E receives a crank-handle, F, upon its upper end, as shown. The frame B may be upholstered, as maybe desired.

In practice this device is placed upon the bed beneath the invalid, and by turning the screw so as to raise or lower the frame B the latter can be adjusted to such an inclination as shall be most comfortable and convenient to the person lying upon it.

What I claim as my invention is- The adjustable head-rest described, consisting of the rectangular base-frame A, the rectangular frame B, pivoted at a to the baseframe, and having pivoted girt c at its opposite end, and the propping-frame having top and bottom girts, the latter pivoted in the base-frame, and provided wi h screw-rod E, working in the girt c, and operated by a crank, F, and with steadying side rods, D, passing through said girt c, all constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown.

OHAs. THU'RMAN, H. S. SPRAGUE. 

